There have been around 27 000 cases and more than 1 100 deaths, mainly among children, in Congo.
Justine Munguiko could not recall the name of the disease she had been warned about, she just knew her baby was suffering when sores appeared on its feet and hands, like other children at the displacement camp near the eastern Congolese city of Goma.
“This disease of skin lesions; comes from I don’t know where… We’ve been told it comes after eating bushmeat, but neither I nor my child has eaten bushmeat,” the 24-year-old said, after trying to soothe her crying baby, who still had crusty sores on its wrists and feet. “We need to get the right information out to the people who are immediately at risk,” she told Reuters.
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